SARX is a German five piece that has been around for about three years now. It only took them one year to decide that they wanted to finance the recordings of their first full-length CD on their own (whatever happened to the good old demo?!), so in May 2000 they already entered Little Mountain Studio […]
How original! Let’s find a name for our band. Maybe “The Lord Of The Rings” has a good one for us. Musically, SARUMAN are slightly more innovative. It’s not really easy to label them. The basis is brought to you via low tuned guitars playing something evil guys might call Gothic Death Metal with sort […]
I have been following the steps of this British lot for quite some time and am delighted that SARPANITUM finally managed to release their debut despite several line-up changes. And these four blokes have come up with quite an impressive album. “Despoilment Of Origin” features brutal, crushing and varied Death Metal influenced by the likes […]
Well, this debut by the Norwegian Black Metal outfit SARKOM is some kind of two-face affair. On the one hand the band did a good job. They play this kind of Swedish Black Metal, which has become famous by bands like MARDUK or DARK FUNERAL. The band emphasizes on the fact, that no keyboards or […]
Classic Norwegian Black Metal made in Finland – that would be the easiest description of SARGEIST’s new release. Sure it is not the most original one in Black Metal, but it has all the trademarks of a good album from that genre: grim, primitive (but not monotonous), evil and cold with a dark yet clear […]
Originally started as a side-project of HORNA, BEHEXEN and PEST members SARGEIST’s debut album “Satanic Black Devotion” proves that this layer can easily grow its pestilent seed on its own. Soul bewitching darkness, abysmal emotions, despair, hatred, cold are words that enter my mind when I listen to this CD. Musically SARGEIST balance skillfully on […]
Don’t get misled by the band name and their logo – this is NOT a Black Metal band!!! SARGATANAS REIGN from Sweden play excellent, slightly technical old school Death Metal like old MORBID ANGEL, DEATH (“Human” phase) and convince – at least me – completely! This is a really good, talented underground band that managed […]
If I base this review on what Mr. Cthulhu E. wrote about SARCOMA INC’s debut full-length “Torment Rides Forever”, I can only conclude that the band pretty much stayed true to themselves and basically continued on from what they had already delivered back then.The nine featured tracks on “The Dark Prophecy” once again come across […]
Some bands just give you the feeling that it actually is possible to turn back time. SARCOMA INC. really sound like in the good old times when bands still had an individual sound, when there where vocalists you could recognize straight away. I speak of the olden days when KREATOR, EXODUS, SLAYER, HEATHEN and the […]
Not sure but I wasn’t expecting any further releases from SANGUIS due to the fact that their former album “Infernum Infinitum” was one of the real poor examples of simple and boring Black Metal Anno 2004. But time goes by and honestly speaking I’m really impressed by this Austrian horde and their release “Ascension”. The […]